Western Yellow-billed Barbet

Trachylaemus goffinii

Not Evaluated · IUCN Red List

NENot EvaluatedInvertebratesForestCavity nestMedium · 76 g

When to see the Western Yellow-billed Barbet

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Western Yellow-billed Barbet

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Togo.

About the Western Yellow-billed Barbet

The western yellow-billed barbet is a species of bird in the African barbet family Lybiidae that is found from Sierra Leone to southwest Nigeria in West Africa. The species was formerly considered to be conspecific with the eastern yellow-billed barbet.

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